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Whether you’re admiring the fall colours in the trees on a winding trail, building sand castles on the beach or digging into some potato salad under a picnic shelter, we are happy you’re visiting a Grand River Conservation Area or conservation lands. In fact, recently, more and more people are visiting the GRCA Conservation Areas.…
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A few phone photos of the past couple weeks… Featuring: trying to shoot a doc without a tripod, goats almost walking on my laptop, hiking up mountains at sunset and so much more!
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The goat fair was great! There was lots of Inca Kola, but even more home-made passion fruit juice, which is way better in my opinion. The fair was supposed to start at nine am but we didn’t arrive until nearly 11. Norca and I took a taxi to the fair, and she was nervous about…
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When I greet the baby goats, they skip across their pen and push their fury heads through the fence to nuzzle me with affection. After a moment, I realise their affection is for eating. They are trying to eat me. Not in a malicious or evil way. It’s more like they’re saying “hey, you’re a…
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These days my hands are almost always dirty. Between doing dishes, milking goats, and petting farmyard animals, clean hands are no longer the norm since I arrived at Centro Ganadero Aldea Ecologica, the goat farm. It’s a plot of dust in Carabayllo, one of the northernmost districts on the edge of Lima. Like tugging on…
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I like goats. They have spunk and curiosity. I worked with goats for a few weeks in 2009 and every interaction had me laughing my head off. They were kept in pens, but these were more for show than anything else. Often, I’d walk in to the barn to find the goats perched on top…
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published in The Watch Magazine, October 2014 issue. When King’s tightens the belt, is the chapel squeezed out? Budget cuts loom at the University of King’s College. Even so, Father Gary Thorne, university chaplain, smiles at everyone he crosses during the day; small moments of calm in the midst of a financial storm. For it is…
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New birth services offered at the Burnside prison. http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/birth-behind-bars/Content?oid=4425923 Jean Catherine Steinberg says her day job is profound and humbling. She is a doula, a non-medical birth worker, both privately and as a volunteer with the Chebucto Family Centre. Two years ago, she heard a gruesome story. Julie Bilotta, pregnant and in custody at…
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My name is Leah Gerber. I am a freelance writer currently based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Please make yourself at home and take a look around.
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